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New antibody could target breast cancers

10/30/2023

CSHL Professor Nicholas Tonks’ team has discovered a new way to target PTPRD, an enzyme that may help some breast cancers spread. Read the story »

Can our own immune system fight off cancer?

11/10/2021

Researchers have studied the link between cancer and the immune system for centuries. Today, immunology provides promising solutions to combat cancer. Read the story »

Why pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is so lethal

5/19/2020

CSHL researchers discovered factors that allow a pancreatic cell to lose its identity and turn into an aggressive cancer cell. Read the story »

Turning off the immune system is hard. Turning it on against cancer is easier.

1/10/2018

How Professor Doug Fearon’s experiences with autoimmune disease patients contributed to the discovery of a new potential immunotherapy for cancer. Read the story »

Three Strohm Sisters Family Foundation donates $5,000 for research on lung cancer recurrence

1/8/2018

A representative of the Three Strohm Sisters Family Foundation gave $5,000 for lung cancer recurrence research in Mikala Egeblad's lab. Read the story »

One experiment: Bacteria-trapping DNA webs are repurposed by cancer cells

10/19/2017

Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad discovers that neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) help cancer by creating holes in the tissue. Read the story »

Halfway around the world, a reunion of friends opens door to a cancer discovery

8/31/2017

After interviewing for a position in a pancreatic cancer lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 7,000 miles from his hometown in South Korea, Chang-il. Read the story »

Long-sought mechanism of metastasis is discovered in pancreatic cancer

7/27/2017

An epigenetic factor reprograms gene enhancers, enabling cancer cells to “remember” an earlier developmental state and causing metastasis. Read the story »

Newly discovered mutations impair key cell pathways in pancreatic cancer

5/8/2017

Researchers have found important new clues to the development of pancreatic cancer. Read the story »

Pershing Square Sohn cancer research prize awarded to CSHL’s Dr. Mikala Egeblad

5/8/2017

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad, Ph.D., has been awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize. Read the story »

Alexa DeAngelis didn’t see a place for herself in science, so she’s making one

4/28/2017

For Alexa DeAngelis, who was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship, combining a desire to help people with a passion for biochemistry means design. Read the story »

New research explains why even targeted therapies eventually fail in lung cancer

3/29/2017

Dr. Sordella and her team propose a novel theory of how some cancers circumvent the killing power of targeted therapies. Read the story »

Discovery of distinct cell subtypes around tumors helps explain why pancreatic cancer is so hard to treat

2/23/2017

Researchers finds that stroma,“wound”-like tissue that surrounds the tumors, helps explain why pancreatic cancer is so resistant to treatment. Read the story »

Researchers identify “Achilles’ heel” of PTEN that helps drive prostate cancer progression

2/13/2017

Researchers at CSHL have discovered that a protein called Importin-11 protects the anti-cancer protein PTEN from destruction by transporting it. Read the story »

Researchers identify potentially druggable mutant p53 proteins that promote cancer growth

12/9/2016

Truncated p53 proteins, presumed unimportant, now point to new drug targets for some of "the hardest cancers" Read the story »

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